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If you’re checking to see if it’s legal, and how you plan to punish me, please allow me to explain. I’m a PADI Master Instructor of Scuba Diving, and I spend my working days teaching scuba in Thailand. One of the most rewarding experiences for my diving students’ is shooting great photographs of aquatic marine life.
Making underwater photographs in Thailand has many advantages for divers searching for that ‘perfect shot’;
Clear blue water
Warm water averaging 28 degrees centigrade
Pristine Coral Reef formations
Established Diving Centers and Scuba Equipment Shops
The most popular tourist areas for scuba diving in Thailand are Pattaya, Phuket and Koh Samui. These resorts offer great fun and excitement for beginners and certified divers. Whether it’s vibrant fish life, colourful corals or sunken ship wrecks, the camera won’t stop clicking while you’re scuba diving in Thailand. I’ve captured pictures of Seahorses and giant Gorgonian Sea Fans in Phuket, Black tip reef Sharks in Koh Samui, and World War 11 ship wrecks in Pattaya.
Todays modern camera equipment has changed the way that scuba divers ‘shoot’ fish underwater. The traditional film camera is still used by many diving professionals, but digital underwater cameras have made underwater photography both accessible and affordable to the majority of scuba divers. Learning to Scuba Dive is not difficult for most people who are comfortable in the water, but snapping great photos under water takes novices some time to learn. One of the most important attributes is good buoyancy control. Apart from all the obvious advantages that neutral, relaxed buoyancy has for scuba diving, if you’re trying to compose that image of the tiny yellow blob, commonly known as a Frogfish, being able to hover almost motionless just centimetres away from your subject is what sets you apart from the norm. Also, as recreational scuba divers descend, water absorbs colour. Starting with Red, Orange and then Yellow, and as you dive deeper, you’ll lose Green and Blue. Strobe lights help to restore some of the colour that’s lost, which is how the professionals obtain fantastic vibrant colours from their images.
I fully appreciate that not every diver has a passion for taking pictures of the new world that they’ve discovered. Many divers are more fascinated by ship wrecks, perhaps diving deep or making dives using nitrox (an increased amount of oxygen) but most of my scuba buddies have admitted that they are very keen to share the wonders on the underwater world by shooting pictures of fish and other marine life. With modern technology as a friend, it’s now possible to store and share underwater images with your family, friends and even the general public via social sites and the internet. The dive may have been the most amazing experience that you’ve had, but it’s so much more powerful to share the adventures with those for whom it may not be possibly to try scuba diving. PADI scuba courses teach student divers how to capture and share underwater photographs, and the Digital Underwater Photography course is now available to all scuba divers from the age of ten.
Private scuba lessons are becoming more popular now, especially in Thailand. Taking a dive course with you own private scuba instructor offers exclusivity, the personal touch, and usually more flexibility. So to enrol in the shooting fish course, otherwise known as the PADI DUP (digital underwater photography) course, you do need to be a certified diver of at least ten years old. But be prepared for some underwater fun that diving in Pattaya has to offer. The coral reefs are shallower here than other dive sites in Thailand, and the other advantage is that scuba diving in Pattaya is available year round because the Gulf of Thailand tends to be sheltered from the southwest monsoons that arrive in Phuket from June until October. Pattaya is not a famous diving destination, but beginners and experienced divers will be rewarded with some of the best wreck diving in Thailand. So, clean up the lens, replace the batteries and make sure that you have a watertight seal, because when you dive in Pattaya the camera never lies. You really can see Turtles, Seahorses and Sharks, and the wreck dives will leave you breathless (pardon the pun) as you drift along US Landing Crafts from the Second World War that were intentionally sunk by the Thai Navy for the local Thai divers and tourists on a scuba diving holiday in Pattaya.
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About the Author
Known as ‘Scuba Steve’ to my friends, I’m a PADI Master Instructor with almost twenty years of experience in scuba diving.
On the first day of Scuba class, a student learns how important buoyancy is in diving. Once certified, a diver will spend a better portion of his/her training perfecting their buoyancy. Simple fact, buoyancy is more art than science. With good technique, the right training, ongoing practice and the right equipment, you can perfect your buoyancy. The goal of any diver is to hover effortlessly through the water. When you “dial in” your buoyancy, you will reap the benefits such as, better air consumption, dive with less exertion, protect the environment and safely control your ascents and descents, Great buoyancy means you are diving safer and having more fun.
Following are ten tips to assist you in developing better buoyancy:
1. Get more training: Most divers often use bad habits to compensate for poor technique. Without the right training, these bad habits become memorized and hard to break. Stumbling through the water becomes the status quo for many divers. Get enrolled in a class. Learn the right techniques to proper buoyancy. Perfect the ultimate skill for being a Scuba diver, without the crutch of bad habits. With more training, you will achieve the goal of spending as much time as possible, during your dive, neutrally buoyant.
2. Weight yourself correctly: One of the first skills you will learn in any buoyancy class is how to weight yourself correctly. if you are overweighted (one of the bad habits discussed above), you will need more air in your BCD to keep you off the bottom. More air in your BCD means more management as you ascend and descend. If you are weighted incorrectly you will spend little time neutrally buoyant. In fact, you will be struggling back and forth between being positively or negatively buoyant.
3. Spread your weight out: Many divers stack their weight in a single area on their body. Usually in a weight pocket or all on a weight belt. This misaligned weight placement usually causes the head to be in a downward or upward position. Seldom does it lead to perfectly horizontal position in the water. The rule of where the head leads, the body will follow applies when this happens. Thus, if the head is in an upward position, the diver will have a tendency to rise up, causing the air in his or her BCD to increase and making the diver positively buoyant. When this happens a diver must compensate by dumping air. When a diver has his or her head in a downward position, they often find themselves crashing into the bottom. Becoming a negatively buoyant diver. When a diver’s weight is “trimmed” correctly, they tend to be completely horizontal in the water and takes little or no effort to maintain a depth.
4. Own, don’t rent your gear: Every time a diver changes their gear configuration and exposure protection, their buoyancy changes. If you are constantly renting gear, you never have the same configuration thus your buoyancy characteristics become a wild card on every dive. The amount of weight needed, where weight can be placed, the buoyancy characteristics of the gear itself all change when you continuously rent gear. If you own your own gear, the configuration and the dive characteristics will be a constant on every dive. Buy right, buy once. Gear choice is an integral ingredient to mastering buoyancy and becoming an advanced diver.
5. Streamline your gear: Once you have purchased your own gear, you should take some time in the accessories section of your local dive shop. Find the right clips and snaps to “tighten” up your configuration. In order to protect the environment and your gear, it is important that loose gear is attached closely to the body. This practice is called streamlining. When you gear is streamlined, you will find that it does not create drag which can upset your relaxed neutral buoyancy.
6. Breathe control: Divers should always have control over their breathing. I have met some divers that have had great success learning yoga as a way to control their breathing. A good steady, continuous breathing pattern is a great way to maintain a constant depth and neutral buoyancy. As divers become more adept with diving, breath control is the way they make minor depth changes.
7. Stay in shape: This almost seems like an obvious tip and has benefits far outweighing just Scuba diving. Divers who are in shape require less weight, handle gear easily, breathe easier and have better buoyancy. A good, regular cardio-vascular workout is essential for mastering buoyancy technique.
8. Slow down: Most divers swim too fast. Not only do they miss things as they motor past them in the ocean, but swimming fast over-exerts divers. This could lead to abnormal air consumption and minimal bottom time. Further, if a diver becomes too over-exerted, it could lead to hyperventilation or a dangerous underwater scenario. In many instances, divers swim fast because it is a bad habit that they have picked up to overcompensate for poor buoyancy technique. Momentum is a bad habit that can keep a diver at a single depth, regardless if they are mildly negative or positive buoyant. Slow down, if a diver can’t maintain a constant depth while hovering, more training is probably required.
9. Observe other divers: Watching other divers and how they manage their buoyancy is a great way to learn great technique and observe bad habits. With the right mentor, observation can be a powerful training tool. Be mindful of what you are observing and take advice only from those folks who are qualified to give it.
10. Practice often: Skills rust when they are out of water. If divers do not practice your buoyancy skills and dive often, they will lose their perfected buoyancy. Divers should be in the water on a regular basis. It is recommended, divers practice their skills at least once per month. If a body of open water is not available, a pool is still a good option to practice skills.
Once you have your buoyancy perfected, drifting through the reefs of Cozumel, gliding down the steep walls of the Blue Hole in Belize and floating along side sea turtles in Hawaii become far more enjoyable.
Giant stride into a buoyancy clinic or specialty class and master neutral buoyancy. Dive Safe and Have Fun
For more information on Scuba training and buoyancy, go to the Academy of Scuba
About the Author
John C. Flanders, Jr., a seasoned and well traveled diver for over 20 years, is a recognized leader in both the dive and business communities. Mr. Flanders is an SDI/TDI Instructor Trainer, NAUI Instructor Trainer and a PADI Master Instructor. Mr. Flanders is a SeaSigns Instructor Examiner and the Director of International Training. Mr. Flanders is also trains divers in over 50 different specialties, technical diving and public safety diving. As an Instructor Trainer for both Emergency First Response and Divers Alert Network Courses, he assists in training instructors to teach these valuable safety courses. John has published numerous articles and manuals for the dive industry and is a frequent contributor to Diverwire, an industry leading portal for Scuba Divers. In over 20 years of diving John has explored almost every ocean and/or sea in the world off the coasts of 6 continents.
Because of military needs, diving watches were invented. Also they were invented for people who dive for a living. Technomarine women’s watches are used in this manner.
Water resistance is the key feature of diving watches. Many go up to one hundred meters or more than three hundred feet. Many can survive deeper depths like nine hundred feet or more than two hundred meters.
Using a diving watch should become second nature to a diver. Watches sold under the diving title have to pass test standards. Divers have many other factors to be concerned about while underwater. If they are used anyway, they may not work properly after underwater use.
During the sixties, ocean work for pay called for a heartier watch that would survive great ocean depths. First the ultra water resistant watch was manufactured. Divers now look to electronic dive equipment. Diving watches are a backup if the dive computer breaks.
Diving watches have to pass the International Organization for Standardization test before it can be called a diving watch. Professional underwater workers depend on solid equipment. Their life or the lives of others depend on equipment working properly.
Since sea water is salty and salt is corrosive, watches must be resistant to it if they are to be called diving watches. The diving watch case is made of materials that resist corrosion. Since underwater work is dangerous, it is important the watch remains safe from the environmental influences of the sea.
The outer part of diving Techno Marine watches need to be stronger than dress watches because it has to stand up to salty sea water and the pressure of deep oceanic work. However, they are made from materials like stainless steel, titanium, ceramic, resins or plastic. The case has to protect against magnetic fields, bumping and shock.
Divers use their watches to know how long to stay underwater. It is for this reason the bezel rotates on diving watches. The watches also have thicker crystals and are sometimes domed. Acrylic and hardened glass and synthetic gemstone are used for the crystals on diving watches.
Oil is sometimes place in the crystal of a diving watch so that it does not break from underwater pressure. Some watches use surface air in place of oil. Watches that use air are usually bigger because they need more room for expansion of gasses. When the professional diver is saving lives on a rescue mission, all equipment needs to perform optimally.
A professional watchmaker should take a look at the diving watch every few years. Sometimes the seals that keep it water resistant need to be replaced. It is recommended that salt water be washed away from the diver’s watch.
The watch has to pass inspection to be used or it may break underwater. Keep the under water scuba diving watch away from harsh chemicals and do not bang it around. Technomarine diamond watch are a part of a diver’s equipment and should be treated as such. All watches should be inspected before and after use. Equipment used professionally should especially be checked for damage by a professional.
I am a born and raised businessman, growing up in a family of small business owners. My parents own a winery, one of my brothers owned his own computer repair store, one was a DJ and the other was attending business school; so you can say that I have been around small-medium businesses ever since I was a baby.
Because I got to see my parents struggling to make ends meet, and my DJ brother going bankrupt, I learned at a very young age that being an entrepreneur is not easy. Being a successful entrepreneur usually means freedom. Freedom to spend more time with your family, freedom to have more than enough money to spend, freedom to travel, freedom to do what you enjoy doing, and freedom to live in the zone.
However, freedom has a cost, and most entrepreneurs are not willing (or unable) to pay that cost. The cost is not financial, but emotional. The emotional cost of achieving success varies from person to person and business to business. One is rarely similar to the other; when working for someone else you feel safe—but not free, and when you work for yourself, you often feel liberated but not safe; this is similar to when wild animals are kept safe at the zoo.
Starting your own business is easy, persisting and succeeding as a business owner is not. You may come across hard times, whether it’s financial trouble, legal issues or other problems that threaten the future success of you and your business. So how do you deal with these problems? What do you have to do to survive them, and how will you conquer the challenges that your business faces during its darkest hour? These tips may help you deal with your current situation, regardless of what it is:
Tip 1: Be Grateful
Yes, I know—this is not another one of those “think positive” statement that teach you to put on your rosy glasses and see everything as sweet, pink and fluffy; no—however, it is true that the most successful people in the world are people who are grateful for what they have and of the cards they hold in life. When I lost my companies and real estate holdings in 2008 I was a wreck; I couldn’t believe my luck, when I spoke to my mentor he said something I’ll never forget: “You have no problems.” I didn’t understand. When inquiring further he revealed a truth I had failed to see with my own eyes. “You have eyes, don’t you?” he asked. There are more than 3 million legally blind men and women in the United States of America alone, and most of them learn (in time) to deal with their misfortune and move on with their lives. “You have your arms and legs,” he continued. “19% of the citizens of the USA cannot walk, did you know that?” I honestly didn’t; I quickly learned I didn’t really have any problems;
I had so many assets in my life that I was unaware of, I ended up not appreciating them. Only until you lose a leg, arm or an eye will you begin to realize how lucky you were before; 300,000 people died in a tsunami, 3,500 died from disasters in China, people in Israel are being bombed on a daily basis, people of Gaza have no food or water, children in Africa are born without limbs, some are raised with guns between the ages of five and seven years old. People die from diseases, lack of food, lack of pure water, and are struggling every day to survive, while I worry about my bank account, sitting in an air conditioned room with a $3,000 suite, complaining about money.
Today, I am grateful for having my health and the assets that I have, today I regained most of my wealth, and I got out of a bad situation simply because I started to look at things differently. I still cared, I still wanted to be a success, but I learned that it is all a game, and the more “attempts” we make towards success the better players we become.
The only way you can learn to achieve, is if you learn to appreciate the little things: do you have a family that loves you?—if so, use their love to help you through the tough times, use their support to guide you and help you get over difficulties you encounter in your business. Are you an entrepreneur? This may seem like a dumb question, but it is a serious one, if you are an entrepreneur and you made the decision to start your own business you are one of a kind: 95% of the wealth on planet earth is in the hands of entrepreneurs and business owners, so you can consider yourself lucky to have the brains and the guts to go out there and make it on your own… most people just burry their heads in the sand, ignoring the fact that their income is in the hands of someone like you and me.
In conclusion, you are lucky because you have so much. When you wake up in the morning try counting off the things you are grateful for, like all of the things you own (both material and non-material). You will see that the challenges you face as an entrepreneur really are not that bad, in fact, you are lucky to face these challenges, and once you overcome them you will be a better player, after all, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?
Tip 2: Love it
If you study every wealthy and successful person in the world, you will discover that they all have one thing in common: they all love what they do. I know that if you are already an entrepreneur and you are reading this, you are doing so because you face challenges, or maybe you are reading this before you go out and start your own business; if that’s the case, take it from me—if you do what you love you will have a bigger chance at success. The “struggles” will not be “struggles” anymore, but challenges, and everybody loves a challenge, right?
A. If you do what you love, you do what you understand: risk comes from a lack of knowledge, that’s it—the only thing that affects the amount of risk, is the amount of knowledge you have about what it is you are doing. Freedom will always be risky to an extent, you can eliminate this risk by doing what you love, because if you love wine, you know a lot about it; I don’t know a single person who loves something and doesn’t take the time to study about it; therefore, the more you love what you do, the less risk involved. If I try to fly a commercial airplane I am exposing myself to 199% risk (if I can ever get it off the ground in the first place), but someone who has been flying commercial planes for 35 years will do it with his eyes closed, and he will have a 5% risk. So, if you love it = you understand it and that means less risk.
B. If you do what you love, you will never quit; no matter what happens to you and what difficulties you may encounter, nothing will be able to stop you, because you love it so much you will never stop doing it. Think about it, if scuba diving is your life’s passion, but you ignore this passion and try and be a stock broker, that wouldn’t make any sense. Maybe you’ll make a few bucks, but it will not last, and when tough times come your way (and they always do), you will quit. However, if you made the intelligent decision of starting your own scuba diving school, or selling underwater photos and videos via a website or other channels, then you made the right decision. You will make much more money than being a stock broker, and you will never quit if financial issues come your way, lawsuits, or any other challenge that an entrepreneur may experience. You will survive, you will persist, and you will not stop because you enjoy it so much!.
One final example, I love to play golf, and I have a friend who can’t stand the thought of it. I invited him over for a game once (even though I am not very good at it) and we played with a few other friends. The course was empty and we were able to enjoy ourselves, but my friend who hated gulf wouldn’t stop complaining. Throughout the game he constantly looked at his watch. He was restless, hated where he was, and for him, every minute was as good as an hour. For those of us who enjoyed the game, the hours passed like seconds, and we were disappointed when it was over. The lesson here is that you must do what you love if you ever plan to be successful, and if you accomplish this one simple thing, then the challenges of entrepreneurship will be a pleasure to deal with, not a headache.
Tip 3: Never Quit
In 2005, when I was just 20 years old, I started looking for real estate properties to purchase for no money down, since I had no money myself. I ended up finding one home, owned by an old man who was not even living there, his kids had sent him to a nursing home and his house remained vacant for a few months. I had my eye on this property for a while, and when I decided to start my own real estate business and begin buying properties I decided to make this man an offer. Since I didn’t know how to reach the owner of the house, I called his son, who was working in a General Motors factory in Fort Wayne. The man was very unpleasant but when I approached him, asking to buy the house, he was immediately interested in selling. Since I had no money, I tried to approach him with a no-money-down deal. I asked if he could carry a note for 20% while I would get 80% from the bank, but he refused. I asked again if I could arrange seller financing for the remaining 20%, and he refused again. He was very difficult to work with. I kept going for two months; I called him every Tuesday at about 12:00 and asked if he was willing to sell the house. I persisted until it got to a point where he threatened to call the cops if I didn’t stop calling.
About a week later I was sitting outside the house, trying to visualize what it would look like after I bought it—what I would do with it, how I would paint it, what type of fence to install in the backyard (needless to say, I love real estate)—when I noticed an old man (the owner of the house) getting out of a car and being escorted into the house by a nice old lady. I immediately greeted him and explained that I was interested in buying his home. He agreed. He signed a note and gave me the 20% that was supposed to be a down payment, as a loan for five years; he was an old man (in his early 80′s), and the house was in great shape. I rented it out to a tenant in less than two weeks after buying it, and I still own it to this day. The moral of this story is that I was persistent, I refused to quit and this mentality served me well when I got into some troubles three years later when the real estate market crashed.
This last example involves a man, let’s call him Ed. Back in the late 1800′s Ed paid every cent he had to purchase what he thought was a gold mine in Canada. He placed the mine down as collateral for a loan and began digging. Weeks had passed and he found nothing, another month passed, and he still found nothing. The banks were coming down on him hard because he couldn’t afford to pay off the loan. Ed was now in big trouble. A young man came by one day and offered to check the area and create a scientific report. This report would be able to tell Ed if he had any chance of finding gold in his mine; Ed was very interested, but when he heard the price that the young man offered, he refused to pay even though he could afford it. Ed thought it was best to save his money in order to pay off the loan. After two more months of operation, he decided to stop digging and put the mine up for sale. The young man who offered to check the ground heard of this new turns of events and decided to buy the mine. He later purchased it as a piece of land since gold was never found there. Ed lost everything, and went bankrupt. He sold the mine for next to nothing, and all his possessions were lost; the new mine owner kept digging, and four days (yes, days) later, found gold worth millions of dollars.
Learn the lesson—be smart, and don’t be so eager to quit when facing a challenge.
Tip 4: Failure doesn’t exist
What is failure? The dictionary defines it as: “Failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective.” So in fact, what the dictionary defines as failure is something that we, as entrepreneurs, are dealing with every single day—”attempts” at success. The phrase to pay attention to here is “state or condition”; failure is, in fact, a state of mind. If you think you failed, you already have—that is the basic rule of failure. When banks are after you, and your business faces big trouble, you haven’t failed… yet. But, when you decide to call it quits, then you have failed. Each and every one of us has a failure bar; this bar indicates how close we are to giving up and calling it quits. To me, failure was always an excuse for quitting, the fact of the matter is—if you don’t quit, you won’t fail. The best way to look at is to replace the word “failure” in our minds with the word “attempt.”
When Edison attempted to create the light bulb, he “failed” 10,000 times before finally succeeding. In the entrepreneur game, 10,000 no’s and a yes means yes. And that is the most important thing I’ve adopted into my personality during the last few years. I learned that there is no such thing as failure. When you think you are about to “lose” or “fail” look at it as a simple numbers game. The more times you attempt, the greater your chances of success are. So, forget about this word called “failure.”
Tip 5: Wear your “Negativity Helmet” at all times
When I was a kid, I watched my dad go through some rough times with his company. His business partner had stabbed him in the back and ran off with half a million dollars of the company’s money. The banks, along with suppliers and vendors to whom he owed money, were putting a lot of pressure on him. There is nothing worse than when a client is browsing through your store and the repo-man comes in to take away your cash-register. When I walked into his office I saw my dad almost depressed, with a mountain of bills and paperwork on the table. He told me (since I was five years old I can’t remember the exact words I said) that I had told him to put on the “bad helmet,” an imaginary helmet that blocked all the bad things from going into his head. Now, when I think about it, that was some pretty freaking smart advice from a five year–old kid. Today I still use this metaphor, but I call it the negativity helmet; there is no worst hell than the hell you create with your own mind.
What’s the difference between Donald Trump, who owed about 9 billion dollars to the banks back in the early 90′s and other developers (some were richer than Trump at the time) who owed less, and yet went under? The difference is the amount of crap these people allow to enter into their own minds. Your mind is a temple, and you must be careful what you let in to your temple. The Negativity Helmet protects you from all these bad thoughts. Just put the helmet on your head, close your eye and imagine all those negative thoughts hit the helmet and bounce back into space; I know it sounds silly, but it works. Try it. Then, afterwards, start coming up with solutions to your problem. Learn to always focus on the solution, and not the problem.
Last Tips: Change your questions and your vocabulary
Imagine you are in a debate in front of millions of people, voicing your opinion regarding something that you are passionate about, when your opponent says “I am not sure that this is the right information.” How would you feel? (Well, this is a debate, so I guess it’s not a big deal, he is allowed to voice his opinion, right?) What if he says, “That’s bogus!” How would you feel then? What happens if he continues and says, “You are a liar! Stop lying!” You would be raging with emotions even though he said the same exact thing, but used different words.
Learn to change your words, the brain influences how we feel based on the words we hear and speak. Changing your vocabulary will enable you to think more clearly and see the situation as it really is, a situation in time—that’s it! In every one of us there is a winner and a loser, and they both have a voice. There is only one who can control the volume of their voice, and that’s you. They speak whenever you are in a good or bad situation; the question is, who will you listen to? The loser uses words like “Never,” “You failed,” “Just quit,” or “What’s the point?” And the winner uses words like “Fix it!” “Do it,” “Don’t Quit!” or, “I want to achieve it, go for it!
” Instead of saying: “I’m going through some problems right now,” simply say: “I am going through a test right now.” Doesn’t it make you feel different? If you really thought of your business challenges as a test to prove your strengths would you react differently? Would you think and behave differently than if you thought of them as “problems”? Instead of letting the loser inside you say: “I’m screwed! Everything is a disaster!” Simply let the winner inside you say: “This is the time to prove myself, that I can do this thing!” Remember, it is the winner inside you that encouraged you to open your business in the first place.
Instead of saying: “I am losing,” simply say, “I am attempting to succeed.” The questions you ask also have an effect on you. Your brain (like software) will find an answer to any question you ask it, so if you ask dumb questions you will receive a dumb answer. Instead of asking: “What did I do to deserve this?” Simply ask, “What can I do to fix it?” Instead of asking: “Why does it always happen to me?” Ask, “How can I avoid it in the future?”
In conclusion: you are responsible for your own state, your own mind, your own life, and your own business. If you ever plan to be a successful entrepreneur you have to be able to deal with difficult situations, these tips will not solve the problem, but they will help you look at the problem from a different vantage point, and enable you to get solutions instead of just complaining about how bad it is. An entrepreneur‘s life can be tough—deal with it, or go back to your job.
About the Author
Usher Morgan is the owner of The Morgan Organization, a real estate holding and Investment Company in New York, in addition, Usher Morgan owns a book publishing firm and a business development company in New York City; he is a born entrepreneur with a lifetime experience in business and success achievement. He is currently in the midst of releasing From Rats To Riches: The story of the 25 years old millionaire, which will be released by Library Tales Publishing on May 23rd, 2011.
When you are selecting the place to go for your next Caribbean retreat, a wide range of factors determine your ultimate choice. From stimulating adventures and interesting sight-seeing opportunities to average temperatures and lodging offerings, every traveler possesses a specific list of personal needs. Adults planning to vacation with younger children may find themselves more intrigued by family-friendly landmarks, while other vacationers may be seeking 5-star hotels that cater solely to more mature travelers. Regardless of what kind of tourist you are, there is a perfectly suited Aruba destination to match your way of living. The following are just a few of the aspects to keep in mind when giving considerations to your upcoming Aruba escape.
Activities and Attractions
During your Aruba retreat, you will be presented with a wide array of different activities and attractions to fill your days. One of the most preferred activities in Aruba is water sports. From snorkeling and scuba diving to sailing and windsurfing, there are many choices for enjoying the Aruba waters. Stopping by local beaches is another fantastic way to absorb the sun and relieve stress. Those staying in Noord on the western coast should consider the welcoming coastline of Eagle’s Beach. Other vacationers may find themselves interested in checking out museums and historical points of interest. Popular sites in Aruba include Cas di Cultura, the Alto Vista Chapel and the Bubali Bird Sanctuary. Additional suggestions for activities include golfing, tennis, shopping and more. Regardless of your lifestyle, every traveler can discover an ideal activity for their passions.
Food and Dining
Dining options may also heavily influence your Aruba vacation experience. More bold eaters are likely to be intrigued about testing unfamiliar types of cuisine, but people with discerning palettes will most likely try to find familiar food. While vacationing in Aruba, common native dishes include shredded barracuda and keshi yena, a soup-like concoction made with meats and Gouda cheese. In addition to authentic Aruban eats, travelers will be able to find comfort foods like Mexican fare and Chinese cuisine at various restaurants throughout the area. Families generally enjoy the unlimited options supplied by all-you-can-eat buffet style restaurants, which are prominent throughout the Caribbean. Individuals working with a stringent financial budget should consider shopping at nearby grocery stores and making meals in the comfort of your accommodations. Irrespective of your preferred dining choices, the culinary offerings of Aruba are sure to fulfill every visitor’s taste buds.
Weather
When most people dream of the Caribbean, we imagine a balmy, sunny climate. The weather in Aruba is no exception. Renowned for its year-round temperate conditions, Aruba is a perfect place to go for vacationers looking for fun under the sun. For example, average temperatures range between 80 to 90 throughout the summer months, and 70 to 85 throughout the winter season.
Individuals must also keep in mind the numerous conditions that regularly affect the Caribbean region. Unlike other Caribbean islands that feature more varied terrain, Aruba has an extremely flat geography that experiences very little rainfall. Exposure to the sun will very quickly lead to burns, so be sure to always keep sunscreen handy while playing in the sunshine. Another critical factor is the possibility of hurricane activity throughout the Caribbean. Aruba may be impacted by seasonal hurricanes, so make certain to check out the local weather outlook prior to planning a trip. The slight risk of hurricane activity should not necessarily discourage travelers, as modern technology has made it easy to monitor storms and ensure that vacations are not affected by bad weather.
Currency and Customs
Anytime you set off on a vacation, it is important to remember that money matters. Whether you’re heading out on a budgeted adventure or a lavish romantic getaway, being smart about finances is essential to ensuring successful travels. The unit of currency used in Aruba is the guilder or florin. However, the U.S. dollar is widely accepted throughout the island, so some travelers may find currency exchanges to be unnecessary. Many places will also accept major credit cards.
Additionally, it is essential to consider the customs regulations of Aruba prior to travel, to ensure that your travel experience will be free of any hassles. It is recommended to register personal items like laptops, watches and cameras prior to traveling in order to avoid any unwanted duty fees. Keep all receipts for items purchased during your travels, and try to pack those items in an easily accessible place, in case customs officials conduct inspections.
You’re Ready for Adventure!
Now that you have properly prepared yourself on the different issues contributing to a successful Aruba trip, you simply need to book your trip and pack your baggage. After considering accommodations options, transportation, activities food, climatic conditions and safe practices, you’re prepared to begin an amazing voyage to Aruba. Every tourist has their own particular set of needs and interests that can all be satisfied through a carefully planned Aruba vacation. Any group or individual can tailor a Aruba trip to satisfy their standards, and experience a genuinely memorable vacation.
About the Author
Katie Boue is a Cuban-American writer who studied at Florida State University’s Creative Writing program. An avid rock climber and photographer, Ms. Boue has a passion for travel.
She currently writes for a collection of 25 travel guide websites dedicated to the Caribbean, including aruba-guide.info, as well as freelance work focusing on travel, food, photography and nature in the United States.
